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Mary Lou, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who served as the Executive and Clinical Director for a residential treatment program specializing in the treatment of addiction and co-occurring disorders.She has more than two decades of experience working within the addiction community and her experience as a psychotherapist also encompasses work with trauma, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders.She holds an M.S. in Counseling from CSUN, with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Mary Lou has more than two decades experience working within the addiction community and her experience as a psychotherapist also encompasses work with trauma, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders.

Mary Lou Devlin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked with and within the recovery community for over two decades.
In her successful private practice, Mary Lou worked with a wide range of clients, many of which struggled with co-occurring disorders, including addiction.
From 1996-1999, Mary Lou provided clinical services for Anacapa S.T.E.P.S., where she worked with both residential and outpatient clients.

A specialist in relapse prevention, Mary Lou developed a curriculum for this work, blending traditional recovery success techniques with an individualized approach.
The goal is to provide a purposefully designed plan to prevent relapse, while concurrently establishing the healthy balance for living required to support long-term sobriety.
Mary Lou was providing these educational groups for an outpatient population when she was invited to join the Harmony Place team in 2003 as our Primary Therapist.

In this role, Mary Lou provided Harmony Place clients with individual and family therapy, facilitated process groups and built the individualized client treatment plans which have become the hallmark of our reputation.
She implemented her relapse prevention group into our program and either facilitated or supervised that discipline for all clients in treatment with us.

In 2004, Mary Lou accepted the position of Clinical Director, which expanded her responsibilities to include case management, supervision of all clinical services and program curriculum development.

Mary Lou Devlin, M.S., MFTExecutive DirectorMary Lou is a licensed MFT who has worked with and within the recovery community for almost two decades.In addition to her successful private practice, Mary Lou provided clinical services for Anacapa S.T.E.P.S. from 1996-1999, where she worked with both residential and outpatient clients.A specialist in relapse prevention, Mary Lou was providing a

Mary Lou Devlin, M.S., is the Executive Director for Harmony Place.She is a licensed MFT and has worked in the addiction field for almost 20 years.She has also served as the primary therapist for the facility and as Clinical Director.